ADesklets are widgets that can be used in Linux using the X-windows system. They are cute and easily customisable. This article has a nice description of how to install the calendar and weather desklets. I now have the weather forecast one up and running and configured to the way I like it. I’ve had to […]

I gave up on Sound Juicer. Despite it’s funky logo and the ease and accuracy with which it detected the CD information, I eventually got it to rip songs so that Rhythmbox could import them but the files didn’t have the ID3 data (title, artist etc). So I used Grip. Grip is highly customisable and […]

Apparently something that Gnome doesn’t do well is desktop widgets. Yahoo has some pretty swanky ones for Windows, Apple has some extremely cool ones for Mac OSX but where are the Linux ones? I do have something called gDesklets (I include the link but it’s pretty futile because the site is so full of errors […]

Thanks to Clifton, I went and had a look at Google Reader today. If you’ve been reading for a while then you’ll know that I’ve said a bit about Google Reader before. I liked it because I could read posts individually and mark them as read when I’d actually read them. I didn’t like it […]